1861821 - Close private tab make it back to non private tab

Status: NEW

(Firefox for Android :: Tabs, defect, P3)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/116.0

Steps to reproduce:

• Make sure there isn’t any private tab opened
• Open some site containing links in non tab
• Click and hold some link and select Open link in private tab
• Do it again to have more than one private tab (*)
• Click in the switch in the New private tab opened notification
• Click on the tab count icon aside the URL bar
• Close the current tab
• Repeat the process but with only one private tab instead, skipping the step with (*)

Actual results:

Closing a private tab when there are more than one private tab makes it back to the previous non-private tab, but when there is only one private tab it keeps in the empty private tab window.

Expected results:

The same behaviour should happen, either the user should be forwarded back to the previous non-private tab regardless if there is more than one private tab left or it should keep in the same private tab view after closing the private tab.

Comment 1

[Adina Petridean QA [:apetridean]]

Hi, thanks for reporting.

I was unable to reproduce this issue on the latest Nightly 121.0a1 from 14.11.2023 or on Firefox 119.0 using Motorola G9 plus (Android 11) having a clean environment.
To further investigate the issue you're facing, could you please provide the following additional information?
— Details regarding the Device used, OS, Android version.
— A video with this issue.
— Is this issue reproducible on the latest Nightly?

Thanks!

Comment 2

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Attachment: screen-20231114-114439.mp4

This was the version 119.1.1

Comment 3

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Attachment: screen-20231114-132544.mp4

This was for Nightly 121.0a1

Comment 4

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My device is Samsung A52S-5G (Android 13), I tested on both stable Firefox 119.1.1 and nightly 121.0a1, the result is sightly different but the bug is reproducible on both.

Comment 5

[Adina Petridean QA [:apetridean]]

I could not reproduce this issue on Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 (Android 13) or Samsung Galaxy S9 (Android 8) with Firefox 119.1.1 and Nightly 121.0a1. This issue might be specific to certain devices. I have marked this issue as New based on the above video.